A Prayer of Eric Milner-Wright link
O God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending,
by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown.
Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go,
but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
PRAYER OF GOOD COURAGE link
Lord God,
you have called your servants
to ventures of which we cannot see the ending,
by paths as yet untrodden,
through perils unknown.
Give us faith to go out with good courage,
not knowing where we go,
but only that your hand is leading us
and your love supporting us;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Prayer of Mother Teresa link
Dear Jesus, help me to spread Thy fragrance everywhere I go.
Flood my soul with Thy spirit and love.
Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly
that all my life may only be a radiance of Thine.
Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with
may feel Thy presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus.
Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as you shine,
so to shine as to be a light to others.
Amen.
Benediction of St. Patrick link
May the strength of God pilot us;
May the wisdom of God instruct us,
May the hand of God protect us,
May the word of God direct us.
Be always ours this day and forevermore.
Amen
No, I am the opposite of “moved”. I am made solid by this. People with brain conditions perhaps from infancy including inconsistently achieving people with minor syndromes, are among the most despised by institutions and professions (and increasingly by the year). Your country and mine need to mourn what is brought about through politics and ill thought out economics and mechanics, through intellectual corner cutting, and through high handed, possessive religion cramping the style of the innocents around us. Our lives will navigate through more difficulty.
I say to several of you, God cherishes your uniqueness. I say to several of you, don’t be taken aback by anyone’s uniqueness. I sense many of you haven’t reckoned on what you have seen (but be careful what you give away). It took me a long time to get as forthright as I’ve been of late. It’s right for you to see under the surface. God understands your inarticulacy. I mutter Glory Be’s all the time and they benefit you.
The personnel at Park Street know how to speak. They don’t waffle, mutter or carry on. The only speakers I’ve found listenable. (My auditory processing may be your gift.) Park Street don’t dumb down and they don’t make it complicated, and their voices and ideas are a pleasure. They speak truth. 37 minutes is brief. Pretty please Dee, may we have Park Street more often?
Not only what happened in their country
The loss of a sibling who couldn’t be talked about
Where had he been since?
The many disabilities that couldn’t be adjusted to
Sanctified neglectfulness and worse (that didn’t get talked about) by glib religion
Minority within minority within minority
Intersectional
Broken families in every branch of every generation
Deprivation
Someone got thrown out of school prayers for not one but two reasons invalid at the time
Inarticulacy
This is why meaning is intersectional (what I’ve been trying to say all along)
Thank you for sharing this, Dee.
As the mother of a child born with special needs, it has been my privilege to see him ‘serve’ others who are more ‘challenged’ than he is. We come to understand that caring is something not limited to those who are ‘able’, but caring lives in the hearts of all of God’s children. It’s the absence of loving-kindness in people that is the REAL disability in this world. My son with Down syndrome is my hero. 🙂